Re: The Apple II Redbook Manual Online

[Ralf Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com>]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 04:24:27 GMT, "Simon Biber"
<simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:

>I'd really appreciate someone running a good OCR program over them. The
>quality is plenty good enough for OCR but you might need to rotate some of
Well, i got the single jpg's already and they are actually pretty bad
for OCR, specially those pages with the dot matrix printouts, but i
will give it a try as time permits.
>the pictures first to correct the tilt (unless Omnipage detects and fixes
That is the easiest task... ;-)))
>this automatically). If you could release the results as a DOC or RTF as
>well as PDF that would be good as it allows further
>modifications/corrections by a third party.
>
First things first, let me see how much work it is too OCR the stuff,
after some other projects, it seems to be not THAT easy,  but at least
i am not in a rush.....
>You can download the whole lot here:
>ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/incoming/A2.REDBOOK.zip
>
Thanks, i will pull it tonight through the DSL here at work...
>It's a 44,109,341 byte zip file which unzips to 44,083,351 bytes of JPEGs.
>The JPEGs didn't compress at all.
>
JPGS are already compressed, that makes them so popular ;-))

Ralf